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Three passengers missing from two migrant boats

A total of 138 undocumented immigrants were detained by coast guard officers on the southeastern Aegean island of Symi after their wooden boat foundered on rocks early on Friday in an apparent bid to avoid an inspection by a Latvian coast guard vessel that was monitoring the area as part of the European Union’s Poseidon program.

Also on Friday, 12 unregistered immigrants were taken into custody on Lesvos, in the eastern Aegean, after their boat allegedly sank off the island’s coast.